whatwhat say what

max!!

this is really great attacking footy at the moment.

three excellent tackles in a row to toumpas.

watts nearly cooked it then.

impressed by stretch's hands in close.

nathan is a terrific player, but he really does turn it over a lot.

he did the right thing - centred it. unfortunately it went straight to a cat.

we're competing well. viney is blocking selwood's run at the ball at every centre bounce.

great stuff to see anb break his duck.

very dumb by toumpas. even more dumb by mcdonald.

we're up and about at the moment - contesting and competing well.

good to hear der-wayne not even bothering to hide his absolute contempt for melbourne / adoration of geelong. gawn still going at every single marking contest one-handed; it's just infuriating.

gawn playing spare down back, viney on selwood. way too much handball early days.

vince on blicavs. giving away a lot of height.

Lobbe injured, Schulz and Westhoff horrifically out of form, a lot of mids injured and next tier not stepping up. Very reliant upon Gray, Wines, Wingard and Boak

midfield is where the priority has to lie. the only talk about melbourne is that howe is looking to go.

if i had to pick the side i'd want playing for us tomorrow and everyone was fit i'd go with this: B: Jetta - Dunn - Garland HB: Salem - T. McDonald - Cross C: vandenBerg - N. Jones - Vince HF: Watts - Dawes - Brayshaw F: Frost - Hogan - Garlett Foll: Gawn - Tyson - Viney I/C: Toumpas - Lumumba - Kent Sub: Petracca Emerg: Trengove - Kennedy-Harris - Howe toss up btw howe and pedersen for that final spot.

yes, but then what do we do with the ones that we've got? can't see us getting rid of lumumba, and if cross goes on and we sign up garland and grimes, it means including salem we have five, and then unless suckling can play as part of the midfield - and, hey, who's to say he can't? - we are looking too loaded up in that area i reckon. would suckling make us a better side? absolutely, i'd expect. so i wouln't be upset if we got him! apparently we're at 100% of the cap at the moment? presumably jamar is taking a big chunk of that and i can't see him going on.

absolutely, but it's not going to happen so it sadly doesn't matter. personally i don't think suckling will help us - we already have a plethora of half-back flankers, and he's going to be 28 next year.

footscray absolutely beating up on brisbane too. they really do look awful. jarrad grant reminds me so much of jack watts. oh god now richo is onto the package malarkey.

irrelevant now, as we don't have wines we have toumpas. man, watching macrae and stringer running around for the dogs has me hoping he can become a very good player; he was rated as a top 2 player for a long time. his form of late has been very good tho, so here's hoping he keeps coming on.

i think it'll be hogan and i want it to be for us for the next 12-15 years.

bt is just horrendous.

Anyone read the excerpt from chip book in the oz today?

Other than exposed midfield form, any reason for Parish over Tucker WJ? If Schache, Weitering and Francis go top three - as seems to be the general expectation now - then we are in the box seat for the best mode, presuming we finish fourth from the bottom. If only it was Mills or Hopper that we could land eh.